Retrospective 2024-2025 of CNIL’s Innovation Lab
This article proposes to look back on a year of news from the LINC: publications, events & collaborations with the research community.
Whether you're wondering what an Innovation Laboratory in a data protection authority can produce, or you've missed out on some of the news items from the LINC, this infographic recaps the highlights of the LINC over the course of a year. An overview of research and innovation activities between two editions of the CNIL's annual interdisciplinary academic conference.
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About LINC
CNIL Digital Innovation Laboratory (LINC) has the following missions:
- reflecting on and sharing emerging trends in digital media and data protection;
- conducting experiments and prototyping projects & tools
EVENTS
[ACADEMIC CONFERENCE] Privacy Research Day
Privacy Research Day #3: June 4, 2024 → Watch the replay
Privacy Research Day #4: July 1st 2025 → Watch the replay
[CONFERENCE] Research on ethical issues and the regulation of Artificial Intelligence
September 18, 2024 → Watch the replay
[French] Conference co-organised with EHESS around the journal ‘‘Réseaux’’.
[RESEARCH SEMINAR] Cookies and other tracers
October 24, 2024 → Watch the replay
[English] Research seminar on the theme of cookie banners, web tracking technologies and dark patterns.
[CNIL / EHESS AUTUMN SCHOOL] Politics of connections: Investigating (personal) data in transit
October 2024 → Learn more
[English] International and multidisciplinary autumn school to explore the policy implications of data flows.
PUBLICATIONS
[INTERACTIVE TOOL] Mapping of Health Data Warehouses controllers in France
November 2024 [French]
An interactive data visualization that identifies and documents Health Data Warehouses since 2017 in France.
Explore here: carto-eds.beta.cnil.fr
[STUDY] Observatory of the User experience of Right of Access on social media
January 2025 [French]
A study of good design practices implemented in user journeys when requesting a copy of the personal data by 10 social networks.
Discover here: observatoire-exercice-droits.beta.cnil.fr
[STUDY] Investigating Digital Teenage Life
October 2023 → February 2025 [French]
A three-part survey dedicated to young people’s digital practices and the protection of their personal data.
Read here: linc.cnil.fr/numerique-adolescent
TECH & INNOVATION MONITORING - Long read files
Series of articles by the Technological Expertise Service and the Artificial Intelligence Service:
- Elections: What influence does AI have on our vote? July 2024 [French]
- Human control, hybrid decisions: what is at stake? October 2024 [French]
- Experts give us the keys to decipher the cryptography of today and tomorrow & We tested homomorphic encryption! March 2025 [French]
- “Diminished” sensors: A new perspective, towards image capture that is more respectful of people’s rights? March 2025 [French]
RESEARCH@LINC - Throughout the year
[French & English] Occasionally, on Fridays, the LINC invites researchers and specialists from the academic world to present their latest work and exchange with CNIL officials: law, design, economics, sociology...
26 episodes available at: video.cnil.fr/c/cnil_linc/videos
